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Perissomyrmex

{{Short description|Genus of ants}}

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|image = Perissomyrmex snyderi casent0172276 profile 1.jpg

|image_caption = Perissomyrmex snyderi worker

|display_parents = 2

|taxon = Perissomyrmex

|authority = Smith, 1947

|type_species = Perissomyrmex snyderi

|type_species_authority = Smith, 1947

|diversity_link = #Species

|diversity = 6 species

|diversity_ref = {{AntCat|429978|Perissomyrmex|2014|accessdate=5 July 2014}}

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Perissomyrmex is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. It is known from the Neotropical and Oriental realms.

The genus was first described in 1947 from two workers discovered in Hoboken plant quarantine in New Jersey, United States. The ants were found in the root of a Begonia plant that had been shipped from Guatemala. Due to the genus' close affinities to the exclusively Old World genus Pristomyrmex, it was thought that the ants had been brought to the US via Guatemala from the Oriental or the Indo-Australian regions. However, with the later rediscovery of Perissomyrmex in Central America, the disjunct distribution could be confirmed.

Species

References

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{{cite web |url=http://www.antweb.org/description.do?name=Perissomyrmex&rank=genus&project=allantwebants |title= Genus: Perissomyrmex |website=antweb.org |publisher=AntWeb |access-date=23 September 2013}}

{{cite journal |last1=Ogata |first1=K. |last2=Okido |first2=H. |date=2007 |title=Revision of the ant genus Perissomyrmex with notes on the phylogeny of the tribe Myrmecinini. |journal=Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute |volume=80 |pages=352–369 }}

{{cite journal |last1=Zhou |first1=S.-Y. |last2=Huang |first2=J.-H. |date=2006 |title=Two new species of the ant genus Perissomyrmex Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from China. |journal=Entomological News |volume=117 |issue= 2|pages=189–196 |doi=10.3157/0013-872x(2006)117[189:tnsota]2.0.co;2|s2cid=86175860 |url=http://archive.org/details/ants_21066 }}

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External links

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Category:Myrmicinae

Category:Ant genera

Category:Taxa named by Frederick Smith (entomologist)

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